On 9/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I often have CSS designs that call for a tab, link, button, etc; to be
> highlighted in some way (usually by having a different class attribute)
> from the other links when the user is on the page the navigation
> element links to.
>
> This is a PITA to build. Anyone have some good suggestions? I'm even
> thinking about using Javascript instead of doig it server side.
You could pass the current URL (request.path) to the template context,
and use the "{% ifequal %}" template tag to compare it. For example:
{% ifequal current_url "/about/" %} class="selected"{% endifequal %}
Alternatively, you could generate the navigation elements in the view,
as a Python data structure, and pass a list of nav elements to the
template.
{% for nav_element in nav_elements %}
<li><a href="{{ nav_element.link }}"{% if nav_element.is_current %}
class="selected"{% endif %}</a></li>
{% endfor %}
Adrian
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